DHS Intelligence & Analysis and Infrastructure Protection Reorganization (HR5004)

Current understanding

HR5004 would amend the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to formally establish an Office of Intelligence and Analysis and a new Office of Infrastructure Protection within DHS, and to expand the Under Secretary’s duties. The bill is a largely administrative restructuring — codifying and renaming existing functions rather than creating new authorities. Status: introduced in the 119th Congress; fiscal impact expected to be modest and limited to organizational realignment.

Evidence log

• 2008-07-31 — Improving Public Access to Documents Act of 2008: cross-connection with improving-public-access-to-documents-act-2008: Both operate on DHS intelligence and information-handling infrastructure from the same 110th-Congress era. (novelty: 2)
• 2013-03-27 — Mass Transit Intelligence Prioritization Act: cross-connection with mass-transit-intelligence-prioritization-act: Both concern how DHS Intelligence & Analysis deploys personnel and prioritizes infrastructure-protection missions, with the transit bill effectively imposing an assignment priority on I&A. (novelty: 2)
• 2009-06-17 — To prohibit the Secretary of Homeland Security from obligating or expending funds for the National Applications Office of the Department of Homeland Security.: cross-connection with nao-defunding-hr2703: Both involve congressional restructuring or defunding of DHS intelligence components handling sensitive information. (novelty: 2)

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